The effects of vigabatrin on spike and wave discharges in WAG/Rij rats

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 34-40

  Bouwman, Brigitte M ^a   Suffczynski, Piotr ^b,c   Midzyanovskaya, Inna S ^d   Maris, Eric ^a,e   van den Broek, Philip L C ^a   van Rijn, Clementina M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b STICHTING EPILEPSIE INSTELLINGEN NEDERLAND SEIN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; GABA; Hazard rate; Spike wave discharges; Vigabatrin; WAG Rij rats

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WISTAR ALBINO GLAXO RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANTICONVULSANTS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; RATS; TIME FACTORS; VIGABATRIN;

EID: 34547819261     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2007.06.006     Document Type: Article

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